Korg S3 Drum Machine - Any info, sounds?

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Korg S3 Drum Machine - Any info, sounds?

Post by Z » Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:10 pm

Inspired by this thread, I thought I'd post here unless it'd be better to continue in the other thread. I remember reading about these when they came out in the late 80's. Idea sounds like a D-50 L/A Synthesis version of a drum machine: one partial for the skin and another for the shell. I have never seen one in a store and I have only found one YouTube video, but it doesn't seem to show off its sounds.

Does anyone know more about them or have any sound examples? I should still have store pamphlet about it (along with the M1 and a matching sequencer), that I can dig up and scan. There's one on eBay with a BIN of $400 with Best Offer option. Still a bit more than I want to shell out on something without any sort of audio demo.
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On another subject, maybe it's time for a "Drum Machine" category?

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Re: Korg S3 Drum Machine - Any info, sounds?

Post by vcs3 » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:43 pm

Google it and you will find some info and demos.

There was a guy that as a site only to S3 but I can't find the bookmark.

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Re: Korg S3 Drum Machine - Any info, sounds?

Post by Alex E » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:17 pm

Deepsynthesis.net has some pretty good info and sound demos:

http://homepage.mac.com/synth_seal/html/s3.html
soundcloud.com/vectron


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